Cycling and other travel
- cycling to Köln (cyclemeter map)
- distance 28·22 miles (255·53 cumulative miles so far)
8th August: Düsseldorf to Köln
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7th August: around Düsseldorf
Travel plans
- to cycle to the Neandertal museum (cyclemeter map – about 8 miles east of central Düsseldorf) and back (cyclemeter map)
- to swim in the Rhein
- distance 18·99 miles (227·31 cumulative miles so far)
6th August: Duisberg to Düsseldorf
Cycling and other travel
- To get nearer to Köln (cyclemeter map)
- To survive the blistering heat
- distance 20·87 miles (208·32 cumulative miles so far)
5th August: Werth to Bocholt to Duisberg
Cycling and other travel
- Cycling to Bocholt to get an iDevice charging system for Lev Davidovitch Bikestein (cyclemeter map)
- Cycle nearer to Köln (cyclemeter map)
- distance 37·83 miles (187·45 cumulative miles so far)
4th August: Ede to Werth
Cycling and other travel
- Got within easy cycling distance of Rose bikes in Bocholt, so tomorrow Lev will get a USB-werk fitted, and charging jPhone on the move will be go! (cyclemeter map)
- distance 48·68 miles (149·62 cumulative miles so far)
3rd August: Amsterdam to Ede
Cycling and other travel
- cycling from Amsterdam to within cycling distance of Bocholt, without running out of body fluids (cyclemeter map)
- distance 58·54 miles (100·94 cumulative miles so far)
2nd August: IJmuiden to Amsterdam
Cycling and other travel
- from the terry terminal to our hotel in northeast Amsterdam, so we can stop travelling to Europe and start travelling in Europe (cyclemeter map)
- bimbling into central Amsterdam, lunch, making like tourists, eating and drinking again, then bimbling back to our hotel (cyclemeter map from hotel to Centraal Station)
- distance 31·28 miles (42·40 cumulative miles so far)
1st August: Servants’ Quarters to IJmuiden
Cycling and other travel
- 11:30 depart SQ, arriving Waverley before 12:00 (cyclemeter map)
- 12:30 depart Waverley, arrive Newcastle 13:58
- 14:00 depart Newcastle, arriving Royal Quay in North Shields before 16:00 (cyclemeter map)
- 17:00 depart Royal Quay, arriving in IJmuiden (Amsterdam’s port) 09:00 the next day
- distance 11·12 miles
2015_05_15: (s)lap-happy!
I’d thought about cycling from Edinburgh to Dunbar via the coastal A198, then returning via the almost direct A199. This would have been about 63 miles.
2015_05_08: Mir ist Crankheit, sagt der gebackene Bohnebetriebene Cyclopath
(A few of the mistakes in this piece’s title are deliberate.)
So I’d effectively missed a night’s sleep this week, and felt utterly trashed. What a good state to try for 90 continuous miles. I didn’t make it.
